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Dead Man

"It is preferable not to travel with a dead man."

R 1996 · 2h 2m · Fantasy, Drama, Western
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On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Theatrical
May 10, 1996
Box Office
$1.0M
Budget
$9.0M
Return
0.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 19, 2000
Theaters
4
Director
Jim Jarmusch
Producers
Demetra J. MacBride, Steven T Puri, Karen Koch
Music
Neil Young
Studio
Pandora Film, JVC, Newmarket Capital Group, 12-Gauge Productions
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Departure and Return of the Spirit
William Blake Hello.
Nobody I prepared your canoe with cedar boughs. It's time for you to leave now, William Blake. Time for you to go back where you came from.
William Blake You mean Cleveland?
Nobody Back to the place where all the spirits came from, and where all the spirits return. This world will no longer concern you.
William Blake Found some tobacco.
[shows Nobody a reel of tobacco]
Nobody That tobacco is for your voyage... William Blake.
William Blake Nobody... I don't smoke.
Confrontation of Faith and Damnation
Trading Post missionary God damn your soul to the fires of Hell!
William Blake He already has.
Questioning Life and Death
Nobody Did you kill the white man who killed you?
William Blake I'm not dead. Am I?
Themes of Life and Mortality in Dialogue
Nobody Leave that alone stupid white man.
[seeing William touching his chest wound]
William Blake Am I going to die?
[as Nobody attends to his wound]
Nobody The circle of life has no ending.
William Blake Why are you helping me?
Nobody A bird told me.
William Blake A bird told you?
Nobody A small magical bird with bright blue feathers. I was following him in your forest, hoping to acquire one of his indigo feathers... and then I lost him... and then I found him again. He was perched on your chest tasting your blood. He looked at me. Then he flew directly west in a straight line - his small beak red with your blood.
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